Bed-blanket



(No Model.)

J. HOLLAND.

BBD BLANKBT.

No. 271,461-. Patented Jan.30, 1883.

rTED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

JOHN HOLLAND, OF LIMERIOK, MAINE.

BED-BLANKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,461, dated January30, 1883.

Application filed December 30, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN HOLLAND, ofLimerick, in the county of York and State of Maine, have inventedcertain Improvements in BedBlankets, of which the following,r is al'ull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making' part of thisspecitieation, in Which-Figure l represents a double bed-blanket of my improved manufacturespread open. Fig. 2 represents a single bed-blanket with myirnprovements applied thereto. y

1n Fig. 1 of said drawings, A represents a bed-blanket of such lengththat when folded on the dotted linezvit will form a double blanket. Thetwo upper'or top edges of the t'olded blanket are each covered with abinding, c, and located a short distance therefrom is an embroideredborder, b, of flowers extending transversely therewithbeing producedthereon preferably by an embroidering-machine-the needle of whichcarries the silk of the required color through from one side oftheblanket to the other. The embroidered border may, however, be producedby hand-sewing;

or the border may be simply stamped on one or both sides. A braid mayalso be stitched on the surface or outside ot' the blanket over apatterny previously delineated thereon, and

a border may be produced by stitching a pattern of any desired formpreviously cut from astrip ot' silk, velvet, woolen, or other suitablematerial.

The border may be composed of figures of iiowers, Vines, birds, animals,portraits ofindividuals, or other representations.

The blanket shown in Fig. 2, being,` single, requires ,but one border bnear its. top or upper edge.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a single or 4double bedblanketprovided at or near its upper edge or edges with an ornamental design,constituting a border therefor, substantially as described.

Vitness my hand this 19th day of December, 1882.

JOHN HOLLAND.

In presence oi'- E. P. MERRITT, A. C. THOMAS.

